Monday, February 11, 2013

Twenty five properties that the Government of Canada considered selling in 2007.

Asticou Centre - 241 Boulevard de la Cite-des-Jeunes. The Asticou Centre is a public service training centre in Hull, Quebec, built on a 64 acre parcel of land.

Constitution Building - 305 Rideau Street, Ottawa.

East Memorial Building - 284 Wellington Street, Ottawa.

Gatineau Preservation Centre - 625 Boulevard du Carrefour.

Lester B. Pearson Building - 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa.

Library and Archives Canada - 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa.

Lorne Building - 90 Elgin Street, Ottawa.

Major General G.R. Pearkes Building - 101 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa.(Update: 10,000 Department of National Defence employees will be relocated to the former Nortel campus at 3500 Carling Avenue in Ottawa. Coincidentally, the Rideau Centre shopping mall across the street from 101 Colonel By was Federal property, and the National Capital Commission sold the Mackenzie King Bridge to the City of Ottawa in 1995.)

Plouffe Park (includes dome) - 1010 Somerset Street, Ottawa. (Update: According to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency website, in 2012 the warehouse will be demolished "in order to make use of the site or dispose of the land.")

(From: An Ottawa Citizen newspaper article, February 21, 2007).
The former Ottawa City Hall is now called "The John G. Diefenbaker Building" (Bytown Pavilion). The photos of 111 Sussex were taken by Simon Pulsifer in May 2005, and posted on Wikipedia.